My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.